A number to forget
The Wild Things' game Thursday night against the Evansville Otters had a little more meaning to it than just a game Washington needed to win. It also had a dubious attachment to it.
The game was the 150th in a row the Wild Things have played without entering with a winning record. Washington has not played a game while sporting a .500-plus record since June 3, 2010. The Wild Things lost that day at Gateway, 15-2, and since have been at .500 or worse for every game. No winning records.
This is obviously in stark contrast to the franchise's early days. Washington played only 25 games while sporting a losing record, including just one game in 2005, over its first four seasons. In 2007, the Wild Things won their season opener and went wire-to-wire with a .500 record or better.
But starting with the final 32 games of the 2009 season, Washington has been above .500 for only eight days -- all early in the 2010 season.
The game was the 150th in a row the Wild Things have played without entering with a winning record. Washington has not played a game while sporting a .500-plus record since June 3, 2010. The Wild Things lost that day at Gateway, 15-2, and since have been at .500 or worse for every game. No winning records.
This is obviously in stark contrast to the franchise's early days. Washington played only 25 games while sporting a losing record, including just one game in 2005, over its first four seasons. In 2007, the Wild Things won their season opener and went wire-to-wire with a .500 record or better.
But starting with the final 32 games of the 2009 season, Washington has been above .500 for only eight days -- all early in the 2010 season.
posted by Chris Dugan at
7:48 AM
8 Comments:
You see all we have to do is win 2 out of 3! Well, that hasn’t worked out too well has it Smiley?
So it looks like Everson’s new plan is to lose 2 out of 3 and argue every close call, stand there with his hands on his hips, ticking off the umpires, and wait for a miracle. So far all that has yielded is that it has enhanced his growing reputation with the League umpires as a hot head that tries to make them look bad. Of course this leads to less benefit of the doubt on very close calls.
We need a thorough house cleaning. Don’t wait until next spring. Come on WT, show us that you mean business – now! What the heck have you got to lose?
If Everson comes back, I'm not.
Nobody cares about the Wild Things anymore. Sad but true.
Everson: Could it be I was wrong? I should have said, all we have to do is lose 4 out of five against the worst teams in the league. Sure, that’s it! I can’t believe I was so stupid.
Fans: We can!
Can anyobody come up with a reason why Everson SHOULDN'T be fired already?
I know I can't. Scoring 1 run in three games just about says it all!
Last one out turn off the lights.
Ima Fraid
i've spent some time yesterday, today and tonight thinking about which was worse: blowing the big lead at home a couple sunday's ago, or what's been done by the wild things since mr. smily pronounced that they just needed to take 2 out of 3 from these bottom feeders in the league.
since speaking the obvious, mr. smily's troops have lost to evansville twice, and twice (so far) to florence. in doing so, the things have managed just four hits a game over the last three, powering their way to one total run since beating the otters, 7-2, wednesday.
what i've come to believe is that the sunday night meltdown, on the heels of another a few days earlier in traverse city, were the real end of mr. smily's chance to lead here. and that the product he's been able to generate since then has simply been a bunch of underachievers grossly underachieving and preparing for work of real men that awaits them when the games are finally concluded. sadly, it appears that very few of them could actually do a real job, one where you actually have to produce, not just go through the motions.
the final conclusion i've come to is that mr. smily has to go, and has to go now. others will follow at the end of the season--most of the players, but this move, if only for public and internal perception, has to be made now.
I'll buy that. Come on Mr. Williams, so us you mean business - NOW!
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